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urgência — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • casualty noun Something that happens by chance, especially an unfortunate event; an accident, a disaster.
  • emergency noun A sudden, serious situation that requires immediate action.
  • urgency noun The quality of needing immediate attention or action.

Senses

urgência is used for these senses in English:

  • emergency (sometimes, attributive) A situation which poses an immediate risk and which requires urgent attention.
  • urgency The quality or condition of being urgent.

casualty — full definition

  1. noun Something that happens by chance, especially an unfortunate event; an accident, a disaster.
  2. noun A person suffering from injuries or who has been killed due to an accident or through an act of violence.
  3. noun Specifically, a person who has been killed (not only injured) due to an accident or through an act of violence; a fatality.
  4. noun A person in military service who becomes unavailable for duty, for any reason (notably death, injury, illness, capture, or desertion).

emergency — full definition

  1. noun A sudden, serious situation that requires immediate action.
  2. noun The department of a hospital that treats people needing urgent medical care.

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